Nipples, actually...

It is not necessary to have another Holocaust in order to have fascism. There have been a great many fascist regimes other than Hitler's. Only Hitler's can claim the specific crime of "the Holocaust". I believe that Bush is indeed establishing a fascist regime, and it does not require a re-enactment of the Holocaust in order to meet the basic requirements of fascism.

Key elements of fascism:

- usurpation of power by demagoguery and fear tactics, if not outright force.

- denial of normal civil rights for various people deemed to be enemies of the regime or subversives

- frequent use of outright lies in order to get people to support illegal and unwise actions at home and abroad

- a fascination with the uses of military and police power to solve most "problems"

- consolidation of power in the hands of a "leader" who is surrounded by a small group of yes-men/women

- intimidation or control of the media

- placing control of the government in the hands of a small, generally rich elite (big business people, usually...military people sometimes)

- illegal, usually unprovoked attacks on other countries for gain of strategic resources, territory, or anything else deemed to be of value to the ruling elite

- the illusion that one is "saving the World" for a better way of life...in the material sense, the spiritual sense, the social sense.

- the illusion that one has "God" (or Truth) on one's side

- the encouragement of ultra-patriotism to the point of zenophobia

- the creation of "war heroes" to pump up morale at home

- the demonization of the "enemy" as inhuman, fanatical, beyond reasoning with, etc...(which is a rather good description of the fascist government itself!)

- the conceit that one's one society is composed of the finest people on the surface of the Earth, and the finest social system, of course...

Bush's government meets most of the above criteria. So too the governments of Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Joe Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung and his successors, Idi Amin, Ariel Sharon, Muammar Ghadaffi, Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Kohmeini, and any number of other fascists, both capitalist and socialist fascists.

What you had in the case of the Iraq war was a fascist superpower(USA), assisted by a fascist major power (UK), attacking a fascist minor power (Iraq), which had formerly been a servant of the aforesaid fascist superpower (USA), but later fell out of favour, having failed to knock off a neighboring fascist minor power (Iran).

One thing no fascist power can really tolerate for long is a competing fascist power...they see their own unholy image reflected in the other, and yearn to destroy it.